You think you’re tough? Think you’re resourceful? Think you’re a minimalist? Think you’re a badass? Think again, bucko. This Inuit and his shit knife at the end of this talk? That’s the real deal.

The real badass deal

Story goes this old Inuit guy is left to die in the sub-zero arctic wilds. He is left stripped of his weapons and tools. He has only his two dogs for companions. Rather than despair and freeze, he deficates into his hand. He then forms the poop into a blade. As it freezes into shape, he takes a bit of saliva to give it a razor’s edge.

He then slaughters one of the dogs. He saves the meat and uses the skin an sinews to form straps. The rib cage he makes into a sled he harnesses to the other dog. Shit knife in his belt he disappears into the night.